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BAUHAUS
"A much-needed
and very lucid account . . . provides not only the most up to date
history of that radical institution but makes us reconsider the
relevance of Weimar artistic, social and political issues now."
— The Times Educational Supplement "A clearly written, beautifully illustrated survey." —Publishers Weekly
ISBN 0-500-20193-5 · 154 illustrations |
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The
way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing
developments to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art
and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis
in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has left an indelible mark on
art education throughout the world. Setting everything firmly against
a backdrop of the times, Frank Whitford traces the cultural ideas
behind its conception and thoroughly describes its teaching methods.
He examines the activities of the teachers — artists as eminent
as Klee and Kandinsky — and the daily lives of the students.
Everything is described with the aid, wherever possible, of the words
of those who were there at the time.